SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A state lawmaker is looking to change up school policies on restraining and secluding students, saying physical restraint should not be used unless the students are a danger to ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

A new study from Duke-NUS Medical School has highlighted the widespread use of physical restraints among caregivers of older adults with advanced dementia living at home, revealing a need for better ...

With some extra support from their managers, staff at long-term care communities can reduce the use of physical restraints on residents without raising the risk for falls, according to a new study.

Physical restraints in emergency departments (EDs) are used to keep staff and patients safe, but may lead to adverse physical consequences, such as aspiration, physical trauma and phycological harm of ...

Before the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois published “The Quiet Rooms,” an investigation into the practice of isolating students in seclusion spaces, the state of Illinois did not collect any ...

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...

New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...

In April 2015, Justin Sangiuliano, a seventeen-year-old diagnosed with Autism, was physically restrained at his group home in Oshawa, Canada. To control an aggressive outburst, two staff members ...

Joseph Ibrahim has received funding from Commonwealth and State Health Departments for research, education and consultancies. He was an expert witness for the Coroner's Court in South Australia for ...